US EditionAmazon ends little-used privacy feature that let Echo users opt out of sending recordings to company
- Amazon is ending the Do Not Send Voice Recordings feature for Echo devices on March 28, as confirmed in an email to customers from Amazon.
- The feature allowed recordings to be stored locally but was used by less than 0.03% of customers, according to Amazon.
- Following the change, previously saved recordings will be deleted, impacting users' ability to create personalized voice IDs.
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Amazon ends privacy feature that lets Echo users opt out of sending recordings to company
Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company’s cloud. Beginning on March 28, Amazon is ending the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” option that kept audio from being sent to Amazon’s cloud and had it process locally on the device instead. In an email sent to customers who’d been using the option, Amazon said it made the decision to “no longer supp…
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Amazon ends little-used privacy feature that let Echo users opt out of sending recordings to company
Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company’s cloud.
Amazon Is Ending an Important Privacy Feature for Alexa Echo Devices By the End of the Month
Amazon Echo customers can no longer ask Amazon to process Alexa requests locally. Instead, by the end of the month, Amazon's cloud will receive recordings of every Alexa interaction.
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